I Started a Joke

Recording identifiers

ISRC

USBC18100183

Release date of the album this recording appears on

1988-06-13

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0x331e5c0fa2b03ecbbf06a0127ceb60ef372718ce50bc34aafa14a3f39dfc01fe

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-07-29T19:35:34Z

Bitcoin block

960138

Canonical record hash

sha256:7e0b2c519979d729850a597fa79aef332d1c470451231e0b1fe320b1c7d013a0

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What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1988, before generative AI. ProofProfile's catalogue derives from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz source corpus, and ISRC is the stable recording-level bridge from that source corpus to the authoritative cc-db-prod track record.

CopyrightChains and Bitcoin OpenTimestamps make the exact committed record independently verifiable today. The cryptographic proof does not by itself establish authorship or ownership of the underlying recording.

Read the complete pre-generative-AI provenance and verification method.